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Got the Kill A Watt today and already ran through some tests that have revealed some good things. Have a lot more testing to do, but from the "quick-n-dirty" tests we did today, it definitely seems as if the GPU is entering in a low power state as expected when the VM is shut down or set to hibernate. On my test system, it appears that the idle power consumption with no VMs / Containers running was around 70-76 watts. With a VM turned on that also passed through a GPU and an Avermedia capture card, power consumption (with the VM idling) was jumping around the 90 watt range (would go as low as 88 watts and as high as 95 watts). Powering down the VM (or setting to hibernate from within the guest) would return the idle power consumption to the same 70-76 watts as after first boot. Like I said, lots more testing to go, but it does appear that my GTX 780 is managing power as efficiently as it can. Hello Jonp, Were you able to do more testing about how much power does the GPU take when the VM are off? Thank you.

Thank you Joe, I am using the last version of the preclear script. However, I am using a tv as the monitor, and I don't see everything that is printed in the screen. There was a message saying something with the "> 2.2TB", but I wasn't able to read it. Therefore, I understand that everything is OK. Thank you very much.

Hi! I have one question regarding the 4k alignment. I am preclearing 2 drives in parallel (new drives) in a new computer. I have downloaded unraid and preclear. Boot from usb and entered to the console. The drives: Western Digital Green 4tb : wd40ezrx Western Digital Red 4tb : wd40efrx I have writen the following line in the console (one console per disk) preclear_disk.sh -A -c 3 /dev/sdc preclear_disk.sh -A -c 3 /dev/sdb In both cases the preclearing is starting at sector 1 (not at sector 64) Is there any problem? Last year I precleared a 3tb western digital green drive in my current unraid ring and the preclear started at sector 64.

Quite interesting the following product from intel: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6509/intel-launches-centerton-atom-s1200-family-first-atom-for-servers atom for servers From 1.6 GHz (6.1 W) to 2.13 GHz (10 W) Pricing starts at $54 What do you think?

Thank you so much for the responses! you are the best. I wanted to avoid the step of creating a new folder, because otherwise I have to change different programs that point to the original folders. I will try the eroz solution. Thanks again.

Hi, I have a little doubt about mapping user shares. My unraid box (Tower) has 7 disks. And I have 3 shares: Tower/TV Tower/Movies Tower/MoviesHD If I map each share , I achieve the following: Tower/TV : mapped to X: Tower/Movies: mapped to Y: Tower/MoviesHD : mapped to Z: So, so for example, if I click on X: I have the following structure: X:/How I met your mother X:/The Big Bang Theory ...etc However, I want to have ONE disk with ALL the user shares. For example, lets call it W:. So, if I click on W: I want to have the following: W:/TV W:/Movies W:/MoviesHD How can I do that with Windows 7? Thank you so much.

Thank you Johnm. I didn't know that. I'm learning a lot with you (regarding another post in which you gave me a lot of ideas for upgrading my ring) I liked the rpc-612 because it has room for 13 hard disks. I see a lot of expansion slots in the upper side but I thought that it wouldn't be a problem. Just some tinkering. However, looking it carefully, the ventilation flow of the hard-disk area is not very good. I think I will have to build my case with wood, because I don't find the case that I want! Thank you.

Hi! I'm interested in the norco rpc-612 due to its low depth (450 mm), but it's impossible to find a place where I can buy it. Is it a new cage?

ouuuu yeah! thank you for that big amount of info! However, I think that a better option would be something like the norco DS-24D but cheaper and for less disks. Then connect that case to my lian-li by one or two SFF-8088 cables (I just learn this). I think that this option will give me more possibilities. Moreover, I would like a hard-disk case with less than 420 mm depth (the norco ds-24D is 480 mm). So, I will have to search for it. I think it will be difficult because the 420mm constraint is "hard". Thank you for the info, I have learnt a lot.

Thank you for your replies! Why don't combine both? Add a new lian li pc-v354 with: a power supply and hard disks connected to a SAS controler. Then install another SAS controller in the unraid case and connect both cases with just one cable. Am I correct? Is it possible? @technojunkie: The sas expander chassis are too expensive I think, and if I can do what I said above I will obtain the same performance. However, the possibility of having a 20 hdd unraid system is so tentative... aaaaahhhhhhh

Umm.... interesting. I didn't know about port multiplier. Thank you. Thank you again for the link of the Sans Digital case. It's a good offer with the eSata pci card. However, in any case I will have performance loss (during parity check or rebuilding) and this is something that I don't want. So, I think that something like this could be an interesting option: http://www.norcotek.com/SS-500.php It's a box that has a couple of power connectors and one sata connection for each drive. I know that it is an inside box (convert 3 x 5.25" drive bay into 5 x 3.25" ). But my plan would be putting it outside and to buy a pci sata controler for my unraid system. There would be 1 power and 5 sata cables from my unraid case to the ss-500 box but I don't know how to reduce this number of cables without losing performance.

One of the top-topic of today is about my problem! great. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14620.0 There the user Johnm says: So maybe it's cheaper to buy an extra regular case just for hard disks and a PSU (to avoid extra cables from the first case)

Hi! My actual ring is this: Case: Lian-Li PC-V354 -> Space for 7 Hard Disks :: http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=546&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=63&g=f Motherboard: Asus P5Q-VM :: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5QVM/ ----> 6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports ----> 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 ----> 2 x PCIe x1 ----> 1 x PCI I have also installed a Intel/pro 1000 ethernet card in one of the PCI (I don't remember in which one now but I could change it if it's necessary). I installed this new NIC because the onboard NIC of the motherboard has the Realtek® 8111C chip and it has problems with unraid. I bought that case because the server has to be in a place with height restrictions. The problem: I curently have 6 disks in my array (1parity +5 data) so all my sata ports are used. However, I want more space . How can I add it without changing the case? I was thinking in buying: -Pci card with more sata ports (or eSata ports) -A external case with sata or eSata ports (Like the lian li EX-50 :: http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=331&cl_index=12&sc_index=42&ss_index=115&g=f ) Will it work? Does the eSata ports work as sata ports? Same performance? Do you recommend something different? (Another case, or approach...) Thank you so much.

I had a unjumpered ears drive that I needed to align, so did the following However, when I rebooted the array started atuomatically (step 9). So I stopped the array and continued with the steps. Now it's rebuilding. Why did my array started? Is it a symptom of something wrong? I followed carefully the steps. UPDATE 7th Oct 2011: Now my system is much much faster! Copying a big file: Before: 15MB/s --- Now: 30 MB/s. The parity check speed was always great (90 MB/s). Note: My system has 1parity+5 data disks (the parity and 3 data disks are 2TB EARS)

Thank you so much for your responses. This is such a great community! I will do that. Maintain version 4.5.6, replace the failed disk with a new jumpered drive and prey for a good rebuilding. In a next chapter I will do the upgrade. Thank you so much.